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OF ALABAMA. Carrollton, TX (Business Wire).
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* Sandia Imaging Systems, a majority owned subsidiary of Lasertechnics,
* Inc.(NASDAQ:LASX), today announced that it will supply its digital card
* printers to the State of Alabama as part of a major upgrade of the
* state's drivers' license program.
*
* Jean-Pierre Arnaudo, president and chief executive officer of Sandia,
* said, "We are pleased to help Alabama in its leadership move to a
* secure, fraud-resistant motor vehicle operator card system. Sandia's
* state-of-the-art printers and technology for drivers' licenses and
* identification cards are proving to be the system of choice."
*
* Alabama expects to issue about one million new drivers' licenses during
* the first year of the program, with a projected growth of 10 percent a
* year, Sandia said. The process will take a four-year cycle to supply all
* Alabama drivers with the new license as they renew. The Sandia system
* is replacing an 11 year-old system. Alabama is switching to the new
* license production system to improve the quality and timeliness of
* drivers' license issuance, and to reduce counterfeit procurement and
* fraudulent alteration.
*
* The state's system, operated by the Alabama Department of Public Safety
* (DPS), will consist of more than 100 issue sites and a central
* production facility housing Sandia's in-line, one-pass production
* printers. The new
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torture and
* final disposition honed and developed by the CIA and Special Forces Green
* Berets through their 'Operation Phoenix' program are to be used on
* victimized citizens.
*
* Operation Phoenix, during the Vietnam conflict, was responsible for the
* arrest, incarceration, torture and murder of over 50,000 innocent civilians.
*
* The CIA and U.S. Army acclaimed it a success and a model for future "human
* pacification" programs.
* http://ursula.blythe.org/NameBase
*
* Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
* 479 pages.
*
* Operation Phoenix
*
* Along with saturation bombing of civilian populations, Operation Phoenix
* has to rate as America's most atrocious chapter in the Vietnam War.
*
* Between 1967 to 1973 an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese were killed by CIA-
* sponsored "counterterror" and "hunter-killer" teams, and hundreds of
* thousands were sent to secret interrogation centers.
*
* William Colby's records show 20,587 dead between 1968 and 1971, though he
* likes to believe that most were killed in military combat and afterwards
* identified as part of the VC infrastructure.
*
* Other testimony suggests that Colby was a bit disingenuous in these 1971
* hearings. At one point Congressman Ogden Reid pulled out a list signed by
* a CIA officer that named VC cadre rounded up in a particular action in
* 1967.
*
* "It is of some interest that on this list, 33 of the 61 names were
* women and some persons were as young as 11 and 12," noted Reid.
*
* Valentine spent four years researching this name-intensive book, and
* managed to interview over 100 Phoenix participants. If post-Vietnam
* America had ever looked into a mirror, this book might have become a
* bestseller. Instead it was published just as the Gulf
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